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||1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846) | ||1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846) | ||
||Gabriel Lamé (b. 22 July 1795) was a French mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity. | |||
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres. | File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres. | ||
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1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.
1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.
1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.